JYR's Space

After more than 10 years in the Domino world...

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:11:00 +0000

...I will leave my current position to make the jump as an IT Security specialist. I accepted this position to meet new challenges.
I will keep an eye on what's happening in the Domino world because I still want, as far as possible, to be up-to-date to not completely loose all the expertise acquired over the years.

German Ministers To Stop Using iPhones, Blackberrys

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:14:00 +0000

The German government said Monday it had asked the ministers and officials to ban the use of mobile phones iPhone and BlackBerry, due to an increase "spectacular" attacks against networks and Internet telephony in Germany.

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Final stretch to our cross-domain configuration...except

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:46:00 +0000

We are doing some tests on a cross-domain configuration. Everything is in place. Configuration documents (inbound-Outbound) are in place in the admin4. It's working for the majority of our domain (8 out of 10).
For one domain, they cannot rename a user to their own domain.

Here's the complete (long) description

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Any ideas?

JYR

One stop shop for troubleshooting Domino and DNS

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:45:00 +0000

Problem

Unable to route outbound smtp mail relating to Domino and DNS.

Symptom

- Messages back up in the mail.box.
- The router task displays the error message 'Waiting for DNS availability'.
- The server attempts to connect to an internet domain rather than the mail exchanger.

a few solutions...
Technote 1420956
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A new player in the Cloud computing?

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:00 +0000

Cisco, EMC and VMware today joined forces to sell products as a private cloud offering to enterprises. Called the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, the announcement was called "unprecedented," something destined to lead to "greater IT infrastructure flexibility."

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DKIM to help fight SPAM

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:43:00 +0000

Have you ever heard of DKIM? duh, DKIM what's this?

http://www.dkim.org/

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) lets an organization take responsibility for a message while it is in transit. The organization is a handler of the message, either as its originator or as an intermediary. Their reputation is the basis for evaluating whether to trust the message for delivery. Technically DKIM provides a method for validating a domain name identity that is associated with a message through cryptographic authentication

It's similar to SPF (Sender Policy Framwork)
SPF works by having domains publish reverse MX records to display which machines are designated as mail sending machines for that domain. When receiving a message from a domain, the recipient can check those records to make sure mail is coming from a designated sending machine.

For DKIM,
DomainKeys (DKIM) enables a sending domain to cryptographically sign outgoing messages, allowing the sending domain to assert responsibility for a message. When receiving a message from a domain, the recipient can check the signature of the message to verify that the message is, indeed, from the sending domain and that the message has not been tampered with.
It seems to help for the SMTP weakness exploited by spammers

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-Conversion_Services/

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/

An SMTP mail has at least two parts, the envelope and the content. The envelope defines from whom the mail is coming and to whom it should be delivered. In the content is defined what sender and recipient should be shown in the mail client (doesn't matter what kind of mail client you use).

Usually both entries are the same. Spammers however abuse this weakness by entering real recipient addresses only in the envelope, whereas the content has completely different entries. Domino (as every other mail system) uses the envelope information to route the emails. Unfortunately the envelope information is deleted by the router as soon as the email has left the mail.box. The result is, that the recipient gets an email without beeing listed in any field (To, Copy or Blindcopy). This behaviour is according to the RFC standard of SMTP, because otherwise no blindcopy functionality will be possible.

Do you use it?Do you see performance impacts?

We currently use Barracuda, we can enable it but from the documentation it seems that it could be have perfomance impacts.

Microsoft - Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) Documentation

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:06:00 +0000

In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, we will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format. This will allow developers to read, create, and interoperate with the data in .pst files in server and client scenarios using the programming language and platform of their choice. The technical documentation will detail how the data is stored, along with guidance for accessing that data from other software applications. It also will highlight the structure of the .pst file, provide details like how to navigate the folder hierarchy, and explain how to access the individual data objects and properties.

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From ZDNet

What notes.ini variables have become obsolete in Notes/Domino 8.x?

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:10:00 +0000

What notes.ini file variables are now obsolete in Notes/Domino 8.x?

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Domino Server 8.5.x group cache performance issue based on workload

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:08:00 +0000

You may experience performance issues (not hangs) on Domino Release 8.5.x. The performance may appear to be degrading based on workload. This issue is most likely exposed on servers that make use of user authentication for example like mail servers or web servers. The issue is related to the Domino group cache code for authentication.

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Happy birthday to you, developerWorks!

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:33:00 +0000

IBM developerWorks is proud and happy to celebrate its tenth birthday on September 28, 2009.

IBM developerWorks Lotus joined the developerWorks family after two earlier successful incarnations:

Notes.net was launched in January 1997.
Notes.net was relaunched as Lotus Developer Domain in April 2002.

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The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See Yet

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Is this really a leak?

Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone
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Great conference call - Open Mic call on "Calendar & Scheduling Best Practices

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:07:00 +0000

It was a great conference call, go check this post for further infos and ask your questions

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Open Mic call on "Calendar & Scheduling Best Practices

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:26:00 +0000

The IBM Lotus Domino team will host an Open Mic call on Thursday September 10th 2009 at 10 am eastern US time. The topic is "Calendar & Scheduling Best Practices using Lotus Domino Resource Resevations database". Open Mic calls are Question & Answer sessions with a panel of subject matter experts from the Development & Technical Support teams. For details about the Open Mic call, please see the invitation document:

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'Windows Phones' coming Oct. 6

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Phones running Microsoft's new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system will hit the market Oct. 6, the company said this morning -- setting a date for what it hopes will be the beginning of the revival of its mobile software and services business, along with the surrounding ecosystem of mobile phones.

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Mandatory fix for Domino 8.5 servers using the ID Vault feature

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:03:00 +0000

An issue was previously found with the Lotus Domino 8.5 ID Vault feature. If you are piloting or deploying the ID Vault feature on Domino 8.5 using production ID files, you must download and apply a fix for this issue. This issue was found internally at IBM and impacts the Domino 8.5 server on all operating systems.

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Open Mic conference call: IBM Lotus iNotes for Domino 8.5 - 3 September 2009

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:25:00 +0000

IBM Lotus Support Engineers and Development will be hosting a Support Technical Exchange Open Mic call with customers on the topic of Lotus iNotes 8.5 on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (2:00 PM GMT).

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Out of office agent replies to messages again after 6.x or 7.x mail database is converted to 8.x mail template

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:52:00 +0000

You are running an 8.x Domino server and you are converting or replacing the mail template design of 6.x or 7.x mail database to 8.x. The mail database has the out of office agent enabled. After conversion you notice three distinct issues:

The agent sends replies to messages previously replied to again immediately after the conversion
The agent will now responds to EVERY message received
While enabled agent sends replies to messages previously replied to again after every design change

Workaround...Disable all out of office agents in databases with an R6 and R7 mail template design prior to converting on a R8 Domino server :-\

1397269
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Yellow day - Keep a few hours to..., Chris Blatnick, Chris Toohey, Nathan Freeman, Tony Palmer ...

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:31:00 +0000

For the Yellow Day, it's time to get involved!!! I'm not much a graphist but when I'm ask to "modernize" a Notes application, I try to keep a few hours to revamp the UI based on those posts. It's a quick win!! It's easy to get rid of those 1990 UI, 16 colors interfaces.

Take a few minutes, it will worth it!

Interface matters from Chris Blatnick
Set of icons form Martin Vereecken
Domino Guru Chris Toohey
SnTT - Lotus Notes Database Icons posted by Gregg Eldred
Stuff from Tony Palmer
And a new sets Fugue Icon collection posted by Nathan Freeman on OpenNtf

So it will give stuff like this:

Old navigator

New frame
Old form

New form

Oh, and don't forget to wash your hand

Technote - Roaming User feature...

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:07:00 +0000

Fun to see that an issue that we had is described exactly in one technote

Roaming User feature does not verify if a replica already exists

Our problem:

The deployment - How to scan 400 users's local Notes data files?

Moving to MS Exchange from Lotus Domino - Random notes of a system administrator

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:36:00 +0000

From Random notes of a system administrator

...since most of our customers are interested on the benefits on moving to Exchange from Domino mail environment to Exchange. Even though this will be a cost factor initially long term the ROI really going to help them to streamline the business productivity. We found most of our customers are having hard time maintaining Domino environment as well as support wise.

hehehe, no comments

I prefer this version

An open letter to Ferris Research (and Microsoft)

Addictomatic about Lotus Notes

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:33:00 +0000

Cool :-)

http://addictomatic.com/topic/Lotus+Notes

FAQ - The Administration Process (AdminP)

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:23:00 +0000

A great reference for our "friend" , the AdminP

Knowledge Collection - The Administration Process (AdminP) in Domino
This Knowledge Collection addresses the major features and most common issues associated with the Administration Process (AdminP) in Lotus Domino versions 6, 7 and 8. It is not a listing of all issues or technotes, but the most common and highest impact ones.

Frequently Asked Questions - The Administration Process (AdminP)

Also, from the Domino Chick ID 113 - Maximize the Power of AdminP in Lotus Domino

Troubleshooting IBM Lotus Domino monitoring tools

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:23:00 +0000

This guide addresses the various problems an administrator might encounter when configuring and/or using the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server monitoring tools. The article especially focuses on how to use the Domino Domain Monitoring feature and includes advanced troubleshooting tips as well.
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Using LND to analyze IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Hangs and Crashes

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:16:00 +0000

To help you analyze Notes/Domino Crash and Hang Data - The attached video shows how to install and setup and use the Lotus Notes Diagnostic (LND) tool. Link

NSD links

Changes to native embedded browser in Notes 8.x clients

noreply@blogger.com (JYR) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:51:00 +0000

This technote 1268588 describes changes made to the native embedded browser in Lotus Notes 8.x clients from previous releases.